Cordemais Power Station
The Cordemais Power Station is a thermal power station in France. It has two coal-fired groups with a capacity of 600 MW each, and two oil-fired groups with a capacity of 700 MW each, with a total production capacity of 1,200 MW. It had three oil-fired groups : a 585 MW generating unit that was decommissioned in 1996 and two 700 MW generating unit decommissioned in 2017 and 2018 [1]
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| Country | France |
| Location | Cordemais |
| Coordinates | 47°16′48″N 1°52′48″W |
| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | 1970 |
| Owner(s) | |
| Operator(s) | Électricité de France |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
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| Units operational | 2 |
| Units decommissioned | 3 |
| Nameplate capacity | 1,200 MW |
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| Annual net output | 4.28 TWh (2017) |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
The station is in the western part of France at Cordemais in the department of Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire. With an annual electricity production of 4.28 TWh in 2017 and represents 25% of the country's thermal electricity production[1]. It is an important source of electricity supply for Brittany.
It has four chimneys, of which two, at 220 m (720 ft), are some of the tallest structures in France.[2] It is fully owned by the French energy giant Électricité de France.
The station consumes between 1.3 and 2 million tonnes of coal per year. The coal, imported from South Africa, Poland, the United States and Australia, arrives at port facilities at Montoir-de-Bretagne and is conveyed to the power station by barge.
History
The Cordemais power station was commissioned in 1970 with a single oil-fired generating unit with a nameplate capacity of 585 MW. It was extended in 1976 with another two oil-fired units of 700 MW each, and in 1983 with one coal-fired unit of 600 MW. Its last expansion, another 600 MW coal-fired unit, was added in 1984. The station then functioned at a capacity of 3,185 MW until 1996, when the 1970s-built unit was decommissioned. In 2017 then in 2018, the other two oil-fired groups were decommissioned, resulting in its current capacity of 1,200 MW.
References
- "La centrale thermique de Cordemais" (PDF). edf.fr. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- "Top 10 Tallest Structures of France". frenchmoments.eu. Retrieved 4 January 2014.